Instant-runoff voting

United states. Compulsory voting is defined as voting that is required by law, and voting is freedom of the people. Now, how do these all fit together, well many countries have constitutions and they give freedom to the people, compulsory voting is not freedom it's not intrinsic, it does not fit in democracy, the right of the people. After examining these sources there are many reasons voting should not be required by law. First, one of the many reasons that compulsory voting should not be…

There are many different types of campaign ads. Among them are characters ads, which serve to establish the good character of a candidate, bandwagon ads, which serve to convince the public that a candidate is best choice because many other people are voting for them, and evidence ads, that use facts to convince the public that a candidate is the best choice for office. There is, however, one type of ad that sparks more controversy than any of the others, the attack ad. The attack ad seeks to…

Politics is a part of human nature, an unavoidable part. Even though this is a common characteristic among all human beings, how politics are ran differs among each population. This population could be an entire country or that of a small county in Wisconsin, I attended a Waukesha County Town Hall meeting. I learned a lot from this meeting, but what this meeting specifically taught me about American politics was that there is a severe lack of diversity in those who represent us and also those…

Research conducted by Lyn Ragsdale, Dean of Social Sciences at Rice University, shows that “the occurrence of a presidential speech has a significant, positive effect, relative to other variables, on levels of president’s public support” (Ragsdale 1984, 980). In addition, she maintains, “in making speeches, presidents are able to influence public opinion positively. Republican and Democratic presidents alike improve their popularity by addressing the nation” (Ragsdale 1984, 982). In his book…

Should There be a Limit on Terms a President Can Serve? One of the few amendments that our government has determined to be necessary is the 22nd amendment. The 22nd amendment limits the number of terms that a president may serve. This amendment is based on the precedent that George Washington set when he served as our first president, he only served two terms. Every president after him had only served two terms, until Franklin D. Roosevelt, he served three terms and was elected to a fourth term…

eligible to vote, have a say in their future. There are many characteristics of democracy including, power is limited by elected representatives; central governments are prevented from gaining power by these representatives. Also, civilians who meet voting qualifications take part in unaltered, unpaid elections. Each society has their own variety of democracy. The two known varieties are direct and representative. Direct, means a qualified citizen is able to vote without a representative;…

Authoritarian government is very different than a Democracy for many reasons, but I will describe two. The democracy has an election to tell who is the leader and in an authoritarian they are forced into it. Also, the authoritarian government has unlimited power over their people and democracy has a certain amount of power they can have. These are just a couple of ways they are different. A democracy lets the people vote for who they want as a leader (President) and authoritarian is forced to…

citizens participate and decide to vote. When Americans decide to exclude themselves from voting, they initially are negatively impacting society. Thomas Patterson takes his stance on this when he wrote “The Vanishing Voter”. In “The Vanishing Voter”, he discusses the impact nonvoters have on society. Patterson’s goal is to persuade citizens to participate in voting and to educate nonvoters to realize voting is something that all citizens should be included in. Patterson wrote “The Vanishing…

This means that the people hold control of its destiny, voting in every decision and being able to be elected to technically any public office available (Blackwell, 2003). However, it’s well known that not all the people participated in this hectic political life in the Ancient Athens, being the slaves, and women…

president with their campaign. When people vote at churches or schools or other public areas, these votes rarely matter. These votes influence the electoral college, which are the real votes that decide the next President. The electoral college is a voting system where a group of people from each state cast their votes for the whole state based on popular majority. Some people want the electoral college abolished, but it should not be. The electoral college it is an efficient way to pick the…